This June, we hosted our inaugural governance and mechanism design event, GG, sponsored by Uniswap Foundation. The event took place at Edge City’s pop-up city, Edge Esmeralda, located in Healdsburg, California, marking a major milestone for our research into protocol governance.
The protocol governance ecosystem divides into two distinct groups: those who make governance decisions and those who build the systems they use. A third group, who remain even further removed, work to establish which forms of governance produce the results society needs while another explores entirely novel ideas for collective decision-making. A key challenge in our field is that the ideas and efforts of one group often remain isolated from the other.
GG’s mission is to bridge this gap by creating physical and virtual spaces where governance folks from various fields and organizations come together. GG offers a collaborative environment for practitioners, experts, leaders, builders, researchers, and investors to coordinate their efforts.
By promoting a shared understanding of the challenges and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, GG aims to advance mechanism design as a critical tool for addressing protocol governance issues.
The event featured a diverse group of attendees, including governance practitioners, researchers, builders, and investors. Participants included:
Researchers: Leading thinkers like Robin Hanson, Bo Waggoner, Jeff Strnad, and Matt Stephenson.
Governance Experts: Representatives from Uniswap Foundation and Optimism Foundation.
Builders: Innovators such as David Minarsch (Valory), Connor McCormick (Network Goods Institute), Matan Field (Common), David Zhou (Doxa), Paul Sengh (OpenBlockLabs), and Leo (Community Graphs).
Ecosystem and Investors: Key figures like Juan Benet from Protocol Labs and representatives from Blockchain Capital.
The event was packed with insightful talks, fireside chats, interactive workshops, and governance-related games. Full playlist here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoNuRyUpGhvwSkeGzaQHSbyl-61b4i-fV
For Butter, the success of GG represents a significant step forward in developing the MechGov (Mechanism Governance) research space.
Key achievements include:
Strengthening Relationships: GG allowed us to forge stronger ties with fellow researchers, builders, and governance professionals.
Building a Community: We’ve established a GG Telegram group and recently launched a research forum, which will serve as a hub for the best MechGov research and foster discussion within the broader governance community.
Ongoing Support: Thanks to the success of GG, we received commitments to roll out governance games and to support GG events in the future.
GG’s alignment with Edge Esmeralda’s mission made it a natural partnership. Edge City is committed to being a ‘society incubator’—a laboratory for experimenting with new ideas, technologies, and cultural practices that promote human flourishing. By bringing together people working in seemingly unrelated fields yet on the cutting edge of technology, science, and society, Edge City provided the ideal environment for GG to flourish.
Stay updated by joining our telegram group:
https://t.me/+Yi_0fVEkVv1mY2Q0
Join the community:
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This June, we hosted our inaugural governance and mechanism design event, GG, sponsored by Uniswap Foundation. The event took place at Edge City’s pop-up city, Edge Esmeralda, located in Healdsburg, California, marking a major milestone for our research into protocol governance.
The protocol governance ecosystem divides into two distinct groups: those who make governance decisions and those who build the systems they use. A third group, who remain even further removed, work to establish which forms of governance produce the results society needs while another explores entirely novel ideas for collective decision-making. A key challenge in our field is that the ideas and efforts of one group often remain isolated from the other.
GG’s mission is to bridge this gap by creating physical and virtual spaces where governance folks from various fields and organizations come together. GG offers a collaborative environment for practitioners, experts, leaders, builders, researchers, and investors to coordinate their efforts.
By promoting a shared understanding of the challenges and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, GG aims to advance mechanism design as a critical tool for addressing protocol governance issues.
The event featured a diverse group of attendees, including governance practitioners, researchers, builders, and investors. Participants included:
Researchers: Leading thinkers like Robin Hanson, Bo Waggoner, Jeff Strnad, and Matt Stephenson.
Governance Experts: Representatives from Uniswap Foundation and Optimism Foundation.
Builders: Innovators such as David Minarsch (Valory), Connor McCormick (Network Goods Institute), Matan Field (Common), David Zhou (Doxa), Paul Sengh (OpenBlockLabs), and Leo (Community Graphs).
Ecosystem and Investors: Key figures like Juan Benet from Protocol Labs and representatives from Blockchain Capital.
The event was packed with insightful talks, fireside chats, interactive workshops, and governance-related games. Full playlist here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoNuRyUpGhvwSkeGzaQHSbyl-61b4i-fV
For Butter, the success of GG represents a significant step forward in developing the MechGov (Mechanism Governance) research space.
Key achievements include:
Strengthening Relationships: GG allowed us to forge stronger ties with fellow researchers, builders, and governance professionals.
Building a Community: We’ve established a GG Telegram group and recently launched a research forum, which will serve as a hub for the best MechGov research and foster discussion within the broader governance community.
Ongoing Support: Thanks to the success of GG, we received commitments to roll out governance games and to support GG events in the future.
GG’s alignment with Edge Esmeralda’s mission made it a natural partnership. Edge City is committed to being a ‘society incubator’—a laboratory for experimenting with new ideas, technologies, and cultural practices that promote human flourishing. By bringing together people working in seemingly unrelated fields yet on the cutting edge of technology, science, and society, Edge City provided the ideal environment for GG to flourish.
Stay updated by joining our telegram group:
https://t.me/+Yi_0fVEkVv1mY2Q0
Join the community:
ButterAave Delegate Campaign
Hi, we’re Butter. We’re building a DAO that improves DAO governance as a participant in DAO governance. You can learn more about our approach and the rationale for this campaign here and in our original Aave governance forum post here. Below we detail our first step towards launching Butter: A 3-month incentivized delegate campaign at Aave. To summarize, the campaign tests the effect of incentives on (i) who chooses to become a delegate and (ii) their behaviour once they are active in governa...
Butter🧈x👻 Delegate Election: An Analysis
The Aave community has successfully elected a delegate for a three-month campaign as part of the Incentivized Delegate Campaign organized by Butter. The election saw a high level of participation, making it one of the most active proposals in the history of Snapshot proposals for Aave.Election SummaryOn March 23rd, we initiated a Temperature Check to select a delegate for a three-month incentivized Delegate Campaign. Funded by a $15k AAVE grant from the Aave Grants DAO, the campaign aimed to ...
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This is the first article in a series where we analyse voting power dynamics in DAOs. As is widely acknowledged, most DAO governance decisions are made by large voters, leaving little room for smaller voters to make a difference. But just how much influence do whales have? We dug into 100 of the most recent proposals from the top 60 DAOs to crunch the numbers. How unbalanced is the distribution of voters? Are large voting power holders aligned with minority voters? Would proposals outcomes ha...
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